War seen from an emergency room by Dr Sohaib Safi, MSF deputy project medical adviser, Gaza

I was working as an emergency doctor for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in the emergency department of Al-Aqsa hospital, Deir Al-Balah, Gaza, Palestine, when two young girls were brought in, one about seven years old, the other five. The older one had lost her left arm from the shoulder. The younger one was covered in blood, but I couldn’t immediately identify her injury, so I focused on her.

At first, I was hopeful, because she was on her back, and I couldn’t see…